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"I think we got a
heck of a lot better as a team today. To shoot 34% in the first half and then
shoot 55% in the second half, I told those last five guys who were 0-3 in the
last minute they were killing our field goal percentage. I do think we got
better as a team. I think we were better defensively. I did lose it a couple of
times out there today because of just silly mistakes, but the two guys I was
yelling at, it was their second college game. But I think if you just allow
freshman to make mistakes and don't correct them and don't correct them in a
sometimes very vigorous manner, then they don't remember it. I do believe we
got better, but we need to get better because things start really getting
drastically higher competition-wise when we get rolling now."

On the low free throw
percentage

"We shot 200 free throws in a four day period last week. The
lowest [percentage] on our team was 63%. 16 guys, 14 of them were above 77%.
You have to make them... Dexter is a really good free throw shooter and he was
2-6. It's just something where we have
to get better."

On Reggie Bullock's
performance

"He took the shots that were there. The first one was a
penetration-pitch and he was wide open from three, then he got a steal and laid
it up, and then made another three at the top of the key. All of those are
within what we're trying to do."

On what he hopes to
learn over the next two weeks

"I hope to learn that we're good. The toughness, we're
getting better at that. We have to be more attentive to the detail. You know,
James Michael...he takes more charges than anybody else on the team. We have to
get some guys to stand up and be able to take charges. We have to be more consistent
moving the ball and moving without the ball. The number one thing is just to
get smoother offensively."

Reggie Bullock:

On getting more shots: "It starts with my teammates, just
getting me open. If I'm open, I'm going to shoot the ball."

On his role as a leader: "It's still something I'm growing
into. It just can't happen overnight. I saw the things Tyler Zeller did last
year in leading our team by example, and so I'm just trying to follow his
footsteps by being a leader for this team."

On the team:"I think it's coming along. There are still
some people we're trying to figure out what we're going to need from them this
season, whether is offensive rebounds or defensive rebounds, or just playing
defense or being a spot up shooter. I think people are still growing into their
roles, but as we keep practicing, I believe those wrinkles will just come out."

On teammate James Michael McAdoo: "He's one of our primary
scorers down low, so we know he's going to take shots. We just have to try and
help him out. The wing players, when they get the ball, they just have to try
and be aggressive and make a move quickly."

Joel James:

On improving since last game:"Coach said in the locker room
that we've gotten better from last game to this game, but obviously there's a
lot of room for improvement. Basketball is a game of constantly improving. I
know myself, and I know I'm constantly improving, but there's some things that
are just stupid. That was just stupid, that's all. As the season goes on I'll
get better."

On his role on the team:"Obviously I'm the biggest guy on
the team, weight and size, so I just feel like I need to play in the paint."

On teammates Reggie Bullock and James Michael McAdoo: "It's
great. Reggie has been here for three years, and Mac has been here for two, so
obviously they're very experienced players and they know a lot about the game.
I'm still very young to the game. I started in tenth grade. So their mentality,
their approach to the game is much different than mine. I just try to be a
sponge and soak up as much as I can when they offer it to me."

James Michael McAdoo:

On teammate Reggie Bullock:"I think he did a great job. He
had a phenomenal game. I think that just came with him having that confidence
and really just going out there and relying on us. I think we set him great
screens, got up, we ran. I feel like the low post guys really helped open it up
for him. They couldn't really key on us too much because they were making such
good shots."

On building their confidence:"It's definitely been a
confidence booster. I had a good game on Friday. Today I feel like I played
pretty well, so it's definitely helping me learn more about myself and what I'm
capable of doing."

Florida Atlantic Head Coach Mike Jarvis

Opening Statement

"It's a 40-minute game.
20 minutes, minutes here; minutes there isn't good enough. It's 40 minutes. The reason why we came and the reason why we
played is to see how much work we have to do.
They're not a great North Carolina team, not yet. They're good and they're still North
Carolina. They have a lot more weapons
than we do. I'm sure we helped their
confidence today too, but they're going to be good. We're going to be better. Today is one of those days hopefully you
learn something from it. We can learn
something from this game, play a little bit better in the next one, then it's
worth a try."

On what needs to be
improved

"We didn't shoot it well, our shooters weren't looking to
shoot the ball early. Our big guy was
trying to take the ball to the basket from 20 feet. We can't do that. Our defense did not play all the way through
possessions. We didn't adjust against a
bigger, more athletic group of guys in terms of rebounding. We had to play a lot more zone than we wanted
to which means it's very difficult to box out.
Many of their points came off of second-chance points."

On the positives of
the game

"Even though we didn't think we played really great, we were
still there, in their house."

On congratulating
Joel James

"I just congratulated him on being in such great shape and
making as much progress as he made. He's
a Florida kid. I'm really happy for
him. He's in a great home with great
coaches and he's going to be a great player."

On shooting poorly

"Most of the time it has to do with the length of the other
team. When you are used to shooting
against your own guys in practice and your own guys are 6' 2", 6' 3", 6' 4" and
now all of a sudden you are shooting against 6' 8" and 6' 9" it's a lot
different. True height in the game of
basketball is length. When you can
recruit the best players in the country, you recruit players with length. That's what North Carolina does and that's
what makes North Carolina, Syracuse, those schools, as good as they are. Anytime you have to shoot over a long
athletic guy, it's very difficult."

On how playing North
Carolina will benefit Florida Atlantic

We'll take out the good clips and the things we did well, we
didn't do enough good things, we'll take out the things we did well and show
them that to let them know that if they can do that against them (North
Carolina) then they can do that against more people.